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An affluent community dominated by luxury homes and high-end resorts, Florida’s Collier County has struggled to meet demand for workforce housing. A ULI Advisory Service program panel recommended practical strategies for addressing this shortage.

If CMBS loans are inconvenient in a good market, in a down market they can be remarkably problematic, subject to high fees, possibly subject to double taxation, and inflexible regarding modifications of terms. Read what to look for before borrowing.

The Box District, a mixed-income neighborhood in Chelsea, Massachusetts, demonstrates how quality affordable housing can actually attract market-rate development.

The Trepp LLC survey narrowed a bit during the most recent survey period. Deals appear to be closing on time, on schedule, and at quoted rates. Our sources say commercial real estate mortgages are being quoted in the low 5’s to high 6’s range at maximum loan-to-value ratios of 65 percent.

The Trepp LLC survey showed spreads coming in as much as 25 basis during the most recent survey period, evidence that the market, so far, is able to function with the Euro-crises playing out in the background.

The Trepp LLC survey showed spreads coming in as much as 25 basis during the most recent survey period, evidence that the market, so far, is able to function with the Euro-crises playing out in the background.

Trepp LLC survey showed spreads narrowing a few basis points across all property types in what was a lackluster week in the debt markets. The Cushman & Wakefield Sonnenblick-Goldman Survey for the period ending December 1, 2011, showed spreads for 10-year mortgages unchanged.

According to Jones Lang LaSalle’s 2012 National Commercial Real Estate Outlook, the U.S. commercial real estate market will see slow growth in 2012 with a projected increase in transaction volume of 15 percent to 20 percent. Distribution and ports are expected to lead the recovery in the industrial sector while growth in the hotel sector, though slow, is expected to be driven by buy-side demand from private equity funds.

Highlights of the October 2011 Federal Reserve Senior Loan Office Opinion Survey include, amongst other findings: fewer domestic commercial banks eased lending standards, one-fourth of foreign bank respondents tightened lending standards, and less easing of credit standards in the third quarter of 2011 as compared to past surveys.

Methods that the federal government used successfully in the 1970s and more recently in dealing with country’s banking crises could help equitably resolve today’s crisis of underwater mortgages and foreclosures.